oppenheimer



s. OPPENHEIMER.

Milk Paii. No. 19,648. Patented March 16. 1858.

UNTED sawrns PATENTE OFFICE.

SOLOMON OPPENHEIMR, OF WASHINGTON, DISIRICT B COLUMBIA.

MILKING-PAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 19,648, dated March 16, 1858.

[0 all whom Lt may concern:

Be t known that I, SOLOMON OPPEN-' HEIMER, 0 "Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and Improvecl Mode 0f Const-ructing Vessels or Pails for Milking; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact clescription thereof, reference beng had to the accompanying clrawings and to the letters of reference market]. thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing any of the commonly usecl pails, buckets or other simlar vessels in such a manner as te prevent che milk fron1 running out of the same, in case it shoulcl get overthrown by the cow, while the same is being milked.

T0 enable others skillecl in che art to in ake and use 1ny invention, I Will proceecl to clescribe the same.

Letter A represents a tin bucket wth one half removecl so asto show the improvement.

B is the licl to the same, which has a cir cular opening in its center and around which a hopper C is permanently fixecl.

D is a swinging bar or lever whch W0rks freely up ancl down, on a loopecl pin E which latter s solclerecl to the inscle of the hopper. 'Ihe bar D has a loop on. each of its encls ancl on the one which reaches Within the hopper there is hung a circular plate F, by means of a small wire-rod with a hook. This circular plate is on the insicle of the opening in the lid ancl is somewhat larger than the saicl openixig and is held firmly on to it by means' of a spring G acting on the bar D.

H is a hanlle on thebucket havng holes perpenclicularly through it, and through which passes a rod I. This rocl is fastenecl to che outer end of the bar above and reaches clown somewhat beyoncl the bottom of the bucket, so that, when the bucket is set on to the floor the rod I Will be pushecl upwarcl and the inner end L0 the bar D thereby clepressecl causing the circular plate F, to be removecl from the opening and by so doing permitting the mlk to fiow into the vessel. As soon however as the bucket is removed from its upright pesition the rocl I is relieved fr01n pressure, the spring G actng under the bar D causing che same to press on to the orifice of the ld the circular plate F which latter closes the opening ancl prevents thereby any milk to escape.

I ani aware that plugs or valves are pressecl against the orifices of vessels' 'or holding liquids, and the same kept closecl through the instrumentality of spfings, ancl such has been clescribecl in the English Patemf J ommal, V01. VII, page 146, by Theo. de Mevillac on hs oil-can, also a sirhilar device has been patentecl to Geo. Trott, on his lubricating cup in 1856. I therefore disclaim any such devices; but

I clai1n- The pendant rocl anl lever-bar ancl when combinecl, ancl for the purpose of keeping the orifice on the milking pail open when the same stancls uninterruptecl and in its pro per position, anything else I hereby dis- 0 mm.

SOLOMON OPPNHEIMER.

Attest WILLIAM COOHRANE, DANIEL REEDER. 

